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Scholarly Articles and Papers

Start here for a comprehensive sample of international economic literature:

EconLit
Full text of over 500 journals as well as working papers, dissertations and books. Produced by the Journal of Economic Literature.

Additional sources of peer-reviewed and working papers on economic topics, available through Library subscriptions:

Business Source Ultimate
Provides access to over 3,500 full text journals (including Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg.com, The Atlantic, and Wired), industry and company profiles, trade publications, case studies and SWOT analyses.
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Papers
Research by Centre for Economic Policy Research Fellows and Affiliates, a distributed network of the top 1,000 economists conducting research on issues affecting the European economy, are published in the CEPR Discussion Paper series.
IMF Working Papers
IMF Working Papers are designed to make research by individual IMF staff members available to a wide academic audience. These papers are generally longer and more technical than Staff Position Notes (Series that replaced Policy Discussion Papers at the end of 2008).
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews in anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journal literature in a variety of disciplines including economics, ecology, education, finance, mathematics, population, and more. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR. [dates vary]
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers
Searchable online archive of downloadable economics working papers by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
PAIS International
Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
Decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components.
ScienceDirect
Peer-reviewed literature from Elsevier journals and books, including thousands of open access articles. Backfiles of journals in economics, econometrics and finance available as far back as 1967.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Covers new scholarship in accounting, economics, finance, legal scholarship and management, and provides access to thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers.
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World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, IMF Working Paper series, and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are searchable in SSRN.
World Bank Policy Research Working Papers
The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of works in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. Titles are submitted from units around the World Bank for review and inclusion in this series, which is managed by the Development Economics Research Support unit.